Comment on Microsoft confirms Recycle Bin bug across all versions of Windows

• Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For now, I’m sure they’re working out how to best break it as we speak.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back in the day, I dinked around with the Windows registry, and found one value under the Recycle Bin CLSID key that you can change a couple of flag bits, to enable Rename and even Delete in the right click context menu of the Recycle Bin, and both actually work LOL!

    Once the Recycle Bin is deleted though, it doesn’t just stop working, it just disappears from the Desktop, and can only be restored in another area of the registry under the Desktop NameSpace key by adding the Recycle Bin CLSID back.

    Definitely not safe, so very understandable that Microsoft (before the slop era of course) would disable deletion of the Recycle Bin. I have no idea why they’d also disable the ability to Rename the Recycle Bin though, I’d always enable that flag bit, so I could rename it to Shit Can Hahaha!

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